India

New Delhi, Sep 6 (PTI) Air India's Delhi-London flight, which was to depart from the IGI airport here at 2 pm on Monday, got delayed for more than three hours after a swarm of ants was found in the business class, sources said.

The AI-111 flight departed from the Delhi airport at around 5.20 pm instead of its scheduled departure time of 2 pm, they said.

According to the sources, ants were found in a section of the business class just before the plane was about to take off.

The plane was replaced with another Boeing 787-8 aircraft.

Ballia/Sultanpur (UP) ,Sep 6 (PTI) Two women and a teenager were allegedly raped in separate incidents in Uttar Pradesh, police said on Monday.

A 14-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a 24-year-old man in a village in Ballia district. The attack took place on September 4, when the young girl had gone to a field to get grass, they said.

An FIR was registered based on a complaint by the victim on Sunday under sections of the IPC and the POCSO Act.

The police said a search was on to nab the accused, identified as Chhotu.

Kochi, Sep 6 (PTI) The Lakshadweep administration has launched a programme to turn its nine inhabited islands into a hub of seaweed cultivation, officials said here on Monday.

Prioritising seaweed farming as the driver of development of the islands, the administration, with the technical support of the ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI), held a demonstration on farming seaweed on the nine islands, a press release from the institute said.

Kanpur: A mock drill of traffic diversion was conducted at Bada Chauraha here on Sunday.  As many as 24 marshalls were deployed for the 0urpose. It will continue between 4 pm and 8 pm today, inform the Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation officials.

The UP metro rail officials completed it in two separate shifts thereby causing it in the morning and night hours.

The work of the second phase will begin here. An underground metro station will be set up at Bada Chauraha. It will be stretched between Z Square Mall and DCB Bank.

Sultanpur (UP), Sep 6 (PTI) A 45-year-old sadhu was allegedly beaten to death by three youths who were in an inebriated state in the Baldi Rai area of this Uttar Pradesh district, police said on Monday.

The accused have been arrested in this connection, they added.

Three youths Sandeep Yadav, Sampreet alias Bhullar Yadav and Kallu alias Munnu accused sadhu (saint) Badrinath Misra of stealing Rs 5,000, police said.

New Delhi, Sep 6 (PTI) India and Australia on Monday began a five-day mega naval wargame with an aim to strengthen joint capabilities in support of a stable and secure Indo-Pacific region.

The AUSINDEX exercise will include complex surface, sub-surface and air operations between ships, submarines, helicopters and long-range maritime patrol aircraft of the two navies, Indian Navy Spokesperson Commander Vivek Madhwal said.

The wargame is taking place in the North Australian exercise area.

Chandigarh, Sep 6 (PTI) Khalsa Aid India, an NGO for providing aid to needy people, Monday said it is providing ration kits and other items to Afghan students studying in Punjab

Mumbai, Sep 6 (PTI) Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Monday said Hindus and Muslims share the same ancestry and every Indian citizen is a "Hindu".

Speaking at an event here organised by Pune-based Global Strategic Policy Foundation, he said "sane" Muslim leaders should stand firmly against fundamentalists and added the minority community does not have to fear anything in India as Hindus don't hold enmity towards anyone.

New Delhi, Sep 6 (PTI) The CBI Monday arrested four people including an assistant professor from an engineering college in Sonepat in connection with the alleged manipulation of JEE-Main 2021, officials said.

Assistant professor Sandeep Gupta, lab technicians Arvind Saini and Kuldeep Garg, and peon Tulsi Ram, working at a private engineering college in Sonepat, were taken into custody by the CBI Monday, they said.

Muzaffarnagar (UP), Sep 7 (PTI) A 14-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly sexually harassed and abused with casteist slurs in a village here, police said on Tuesday.

The incident took place under the Budhana police station limits two days back, and the accused was arrested, Additional Superintendent of Police Atul Shrivastava said.

He said a case has been registered under relevant sections of the law.